Thinking DevOps » Week 2 » Introduction To DevOps

Q: Which of these is associated with social coding, rather than traditional thinking?

Correct. Social coding means using other team members’ code and those team members using your code.

Q: Select the correct statement regarding small batches.

Correct. By quickly gaining feedback, you can minimize producing a product that the customer does not want.

Q: Which of these is associated with minimum viable product (MVP)?

Correct. MVP is the cheapest thing you can do to gain value to test a hypothesis. The customer gets what they want through iteration and experimentation.

Q: What is the Red, Green, Refactor workflow?

Correct. The Red, Green, Refactor workflow is outputting failing test cases in red and passing test cases in green.

Q: What is behavior driven development (BDD)?

Correct. BDD forces you to think about the behavior of the system from the outside in, focusing on business outcomes.

Q: Select the statement that correctly describes Gherkin.

Correct. The Gherkin syntax is a natural language syntax understood by developers, operations, and customers.

Q: Which of these is true of a monolith, rather than microservices?

Correct. With microservices the API allows you to change a database.

Q: Select the correct statement regarding stateless microservices.

Correct. Stateless microservices each maintain their own state in a separate database or persistent object store. They are full processes that are easily replaced.

Q: What is monkey testing?

Correct. Monkey testing is killing services to see how other services are affected. Failure-inducing tools include Chaos Monkey and Netflix’s Simian Army.